Hey, it’s October, and I am completely focused on Halloween, my favorite holiday. In the spirit of that, I give you photos of monsterous and mutant vegetables.
This is one of the radishes that grew out back with the pumpkins. The stalk on it got long enough that it trailed down and intertwined with the pumpkins, so it was not until the pumpkin vines started dying off that we noticed there was this monsterous mutant growing with the pumpkins. It’s about the size of a softball:
Way too large for a radish. It did make us wonder how long we could leave them there and just how big they would get.
As you know, our squash plants were decimated by squash beetles. Our neighbors, J & S, just a few hundred feet from us, saw virtually no damage at all. They planted quite a bit of zucchini & summer squash, and it often gets away from them, as is evidenced in the photo below:
